Bridge Investment Services hires Kuss

Donald G. Kuss joined Bridge Investment Services in Bridgehampton as a registered representative and an investment advisor representative. Kuss brings more than 25 years of experience in the financial planning field to his new position.

HEALTH CARE

Barbara Lopez-Heffernan, a nurse practitioner, was named director of the sexual assault forensic examiner program in the emergency department of Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow. A forensic nurse since 1993, Lopez-Heffernan recently spent seven years as a sexual assault nurse examiner at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.

LAW

Veronique A. Urban

Farrell Fritz in Uniondale brought Veronique A. Urban aboard as a bankruptcy and creditors’ rights and healthcare associate. Urban previously worked as an associate at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in Manhattan.

MANUFACTURING

Air Techniques, a dental equipment manufacturer in Melville, welcomed Jan Niewiadomski as chief technology leader. Niewiadomski’s role carries responsibility for the engineering and research and development departments and oversight of product design and the creation of dental, health care and special markets. Niewiadomski previously held management positions in the electrical and optical engineering fields.

NONPROFITS

The YMCA of Long Island Inc. in Glen Cove announced the election of Scott Sammis as chairman of its board of

Scott Sammis

directors. Sammis is a former two-term chairman of the Huntington YMCA and benefactor of the Huntington Y’s new Sammis Family Childcare Center. Also elected to the board were Frank Boulton, president/owner of the Long Island Ducks, former chairman of the Great South Bay YMCA and benefactor of the Great South Bay YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts; and Robert Crossan, CFO and COO of Jersey Partners Inc./GFI Group and former YMCA advisory council member.